Roman Warm Period and Late Antique Little Ice Age in an Earth System Model Large Ensemble
Changes in climate during the Roman Warm Period (RWP, 1–250 CE) and Late Antique Little Ice Age (LALIA, 536–660 CE) play a critical role in early societal evolution, but the climate differences between these two periods and the possible causes of the changes remain poorly explored. Here we use t...
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ftunistlouisbrus:oai:dial.uclouvain.be:boreal:271041 2024-05-12T08:10:55+00:00 Roman Warm Period and Late Antique Little Ice Age in an Earth System Model Large Ensemble Shi, Feng Sun, Cheng Guion, Antoine Yin, Qiuzhen Zhao, Sen Liu, Ting Guo, Zhengtang UCL - SST/ELI/ELIC - Earth & Climate 2022 http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/271041 https://doi.org/10.1029/2021jd035832 eng eng info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/Université catholique de Louvain/MIS/ boreal:271041 http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/271041 doi:10.1029/2021jd035832 urn:ISSN:2169-897X urn:EISSN:2169-8996 Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, Vol. 127, no.16, p. 1-16 (2022) Space and Planetary Science Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous) Atmospheric Science Geophysics info:eu-repo/semantics/article 2022 ftunistlouisbrus https://doi.org/10.1029/2021jd035832 2024-04-18T17:08:39Z Changes in climate during the Roman Warm Period (RWP, 1–250 CE) and Late Antique Little Ice Age (LALIA, 536–660 CE) play a critical role in early societal evolution, but the climate differences between these two periods and the possible causes of the changes remain poorly explored. Here we use the LOch–Vecode-Ecbilt-CLio-agIsM model Large Common Era Ensemble with 70 members to examine the climate change over these two intervals and compare the results of this ensemble with the latest temperature reconstructions from the Past Global Changes 2k network and the transient simulation for the past 2,000 years from the Community Earth System Model. Results from both proxy reconstructions and climate model simulations show warming in mid-to-high latitudes of the Northern Hemisphere (NH) during the RWP compared with the LALIA. This is likely linked with the increased radiative forcing associated with weaker volcanic eruptions in the RWP, which results in reduced sea ice area and pronounced high-latitude warming through surface albedo and lapse-rate feedbacks. This increases the upper ocean heat content over centennial time scales to maintain warming over the NH high-latitude regions. Moreover, the RWP has drier (wetter) conditions in the eastern (western) equatorial Pacific than the LALIA, and this is related to the zonal sea surface temperature gradient in the equatorial Pacific through modification of the zonal circulation. Article in Journal/Newspaper Sea ice DIAL@USL-B (Université Saint-Louis, Bruxelles) Lalia ENVELOPE(12.531,12.531,65.270,65.270) Pacific Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres 127 16 |
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Changes in climate during the Roman Warm Period (RWP, 1–250 CE) and Late Antique Little Ice Age (LALIA, 536–660 CE) play a critical role in early societal evolution, but the climate differences between these two periods and the possible causes of the changes remain poorly explored. Here we use the LOch–Vecode-Ecbilt-CLio-agIsM model Large Common Era Ensemble with 70 members to examine the climate change over these two intervals and compare the results of this ensemble with the latest temperature reconstructions from the Past Global Changes 2k network and the transient simulation for the past 2,000 years from the Community Earth System Model. Results from both proxy reconstructions and climate model simulations show warming in mid-to-high latitudes of the Northern Hemisphere (NH) during the RWP compared with the LALIA. This is likely linked with the increased radiative forcing associated with weaker volcanic eruptions in the RWP, which results in reduced sea ice area and pronounced high-latitude warming through surface albedo and lapse-rate feedbacks. This increases the upper ocean heat content over centennial time scales to maintain warming over the NH high-latitude regions. Moreover, the RWP has drier (wetter) conditions in the eastern (western) equatorial Pacific than the LALIA, and this is related to the zonal sea surface temperature gradient in the equatorial Pacific through modification of the zonal circulation. |
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Shi, Feng Sun, Cheng Guion, Antoine Yin, Qiuzhen Zhao, Sen Liu, Ting Guo, Zhengtang |
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Shi, Feng Sun, Cheng Guion, Antoine Yin, Qiuzhen Zhao, Sen Liu, Ting Guo, Zhengtang |
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Roman Warm Period and Late Antique Little Ice Age in an Earth System Model Large Ensemble |
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Roman Warm Period and Late Antique Little Ice Age in an Earth System Model Large Ensemble |
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Roman Warm Period and Late Antique Little Ice Age in an Earth System Model Large Ensemble |
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Roman Warm Period and Late Antique Little Ice Age in an Earth System Model Large Ensemble |
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Roman Warm Period and Late Antique Little Ice Age in an Earth System Model Large Ensemble |
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roman warm period and late antique little ice age in an earth system model large ensemble |
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